Author: Uditha Devapriya

Contrary to what certain commentators say, Biden-Harris will be completely different foreign policy wise to Trump-Pence.

The #GotaFail campaign tells us a lot about the failures, not of this regime, but of the regime those promoting…

Where a government attempts neoliberal shock therapy while bypassing the prerequisites of industrialisation, it will widen inequality, leading to its…

The Opposition must take the Latin American experience to heart: if its support base doesn't go beyond an upper middle…

The Jathika Chintanaya has got it more right than most Left outfits and NGOs on the problems ailing our economy.

The rise of the Jathika Chintanaya in the 1980s must be traced to the descent, and the capitulation, of the…

Paangshu continues to be reviewed positively by critics who, during the second insurrection, would have called the victims of State-led…

The two most discriminated groups in post-19th century Sri Lanka were not minorities engaged in trade, but rather Kandyan peasants…

When it comes to the reality of plantation colonialism in countries like ours, certain myths have to be debunked.

In Sri Lanka there is a poverty of protest, and artists and activists who see the root causes of our…

For them to reach the people and make an impact, the NGOs of Sri Lanka must move beyond cocktail circuits…

In the ninth parliament of Sri Lanka, the Opposition has become a many-headed hydra fighting a formidable behemoth.

Their nationalism, as with their reformism, was limited by their economic interests. “They were men acting in the interests of…

Unfortunately while many Sinhala scholars are willing to take up cudgels against nationalists spouting historical myths, not many Tamil scholars…

The NGOs, the think-tanks, and the columnists, particularly in the English language media, have let the Opposition go scot-free. This…

Your Excellency, Enacted in 1978, our present Constitution is Gaullist in conception and character, strongly and unequivocally republican. The conditions…